Graduate Students

Department faculty contribute to the education of graduate students by participating as course directors, instructors, mentors and hosts of journal clubs. The department’s efforts are led by Laura Timares, Ph.D., Hui Xu, Ph.D., and Nabiha Yusuf, Ph.D. Over the past five years department faculty have averaged 148 didactic credit hours. Seventeen graduate students have been mentored during this time. Laura Timares, Ph.D. developed an advanced level graduate course on dendritic cells and has served as course director for CMB 778 Dendritic Cell Biology. Nabiha Yusuf, Ph.D. is currently course director and instructor for Cancer Immunology Graduate Biomedical Sciences (GBS) course 774, cancer biology theme.